The PickBits Arcade

15 games. Every one a door in.

Real games, all built in public with AI in the loop — idle tycoons, a bullet-hell shmup, real-time chess, tower defense, and more. Free to play with light ads. Buy any one, or just download it, and you're in the Experimenters Discord: player channels, beta builds, feature requests, the people designing them.

In closed testing now

Steel Phoenix — June 2026

Vertical bullet-hell shmup. Mobile-first and free; Steam Early Access ($9.99) follows in August. Be one of the first 50 testers and earn a launch-week key for the rest of the lineup.

Now playing — free
Steel Phoenix
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The full lineup

Fifteen games. All real, all shipping.

The art's all real; the games all ship. Tap in — they run in your browser, free.

How the arcade works

Free to play. Every door leads to the Discord.

Every game is free to play with light ads — that's what keeps a solo studio's servers running. Want them gone? You've got options. And any of them puts you in the Experimenters server.

Free
Every game, light ads, in your browser
Ad-free
Pay what you can across the whole arcade
Discord
Any purchase — or a free download — gets you in
Go ad-free Or subscribe — ad-free included Experimenters ($5/mo or $45/yr) get ad-free everywhere automatically.
Play, then build

Like the games? Learn how they're built.

Every game in the arcade came out of the same workflow we teach. Grab a Training Pack and build your own.